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Actually, i'm already planning to ride it again, one way, solo, as fast as i can...i'm just curious to see what time i can do it in at my own pace.
Nothing beats having someone to ride with and keep you company, but it's just another thing i have to do :)

Pick another ride Scott.
You've done DD to death.

not solo though...i'd like to know for peace of mind :)

Ha ha,

This reminds me of riding across the plains in Canada and pulling up the low moments by making up stuff. An air museum would have been absolute comedy gold. I had to turn grain silos into pumping stations for the national supply of beef bourginone.

Hit them in Cambridgeshire. So utterly soul destroying to wipe your face clean ten seconds before hitting another swarm. Ended up giving up on arms and legs until the merciful rain came and could wash them away.

On a stripped down Chocolate Donkey and good night's sleep, I reckon less than 8 hours on a good day.

Congrats to Scott and Tricity, a truly admirable achievement!

Because I got an open return that lasts a month to get the train home from the DD I'm heading back to my parent's house (about 20 miles closer than Dunwich) today and riding the 100 miles back in a couple of days time.. I'm not taking a map or garmin as I know the route fairly well from about 40 miles out either end (leaves an interesting chunk of essex to find my way through) but if I get lost I'll be sure to follow your trail of batteries and LEDs.

I'll accept that, but, only if you do it this week.

How did you get to Harlow?

Perhaps some of the veterans on here could organise the " how to get out of East London" rides. These would consist of going out via the Epping Way or the Chigwell way. We could start at the top of the Lea Bridge Rd ( Clapton ) and then start from there . I d imagine that there are at least 2 -3 rides that could be offered .

The trouble with East London is that its geography means that there are really only two ways out . Both are not immediately obvious.



Oliver, perhaps we can organise this ?

Well, that's not very difficult to organise. You just go out via one of the two ways and come back via the other. Coin toss at the start decides direction. :)

Oh, and a medium-length route through the nearer reaches of Essex is also easy to organise.

And you could always join a Cycling Club Hackney club run:

http://www.cyclingclubhackney.co.uk/

But what i noticed on the round Chelmsford Ride is that a lot of people had'nt beem out of the E nunbers. I sensed that there was a lack of confidence

Lea Valley CC - Walthamstow Town Hall almost every sunday@ 9- can also show you how to escape east london

If you're talking about our group, well, that was basically forumengers. :)

I do agree that it's a nice idea for a ride.

Fair play to you both... top effort... talk about against the odds and all that!

Two audio clips. From the Southwark Cyclists mailing list.

This was broadcast yesterday afternoon (Sun 12th July) on BBC Radio Suffolk

Part 1 - Part 2 -

Fuck me,

Yehuda Moon did the DD.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nattyjewels/3695206518/

I saw that, too. He looks convincing.

@Tricity, Scott, well done guys!
Scott, read the discussion we had in General re Garmin last week. GPX files are not good if you want to follow an exact route (a well known annoying thing about Garmin), you need to set it up as a course .tx file and that will work brilliantly.

I'm in awe. You realize I'm going to be thinking of you two next time I have one of those hungover-with-wooden-legs-grinding-into-a-two-way-headwind-whilst-being-overtaken-by-nodders days?

Scott/The Bendix.. you two are classic nut cases.. I love it! keep us across the next odysey, i' might well sign up :)

SNS & TB - loved reading those posts you crazy heads. well done inDeeD.

x

You know that means that there's only one thing for it next year...

Train to Darsham. Bimble down to the beach in the morning. Ride to Hackney for 7pm. Ride to Dunwich with the crowds. Ride back to Hackney.

...

Ha.....nice idea!

It's been done:

We ran into him on the way out of the food stop. He was going very slowly, and clearly suffering, but he made it!

Oh - wait - failed to read end of sentence. D'oh! Mind you, he did mention thinking about riding back to Hackney as well (he's training for some ultra-distance ride), but I don't think he did in the end.

Especially tricky if he'd left his car there, maybe he was ahead of the times, HTFU'ing and going for the 4 times DunRun (Dunwich, Hackney, Dunwich, Hackney, Dunwich).

im so glad you posted this link

just found this in the same album - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nattyje...n/photostream/
and really remembered seeing it but not being able to explain it at all later on

More pictures if this works...

That table was the most comfrotable thing that I've ever slept on.

I died last year.

One of these statements is true*

I'm amused that there's spotted Dick in the menu front of Em..

Ahhhh, nostalgia. I wanna do it again! I hate that there's a whole year in between successive Dunwich Dynamos.

I did it halfway back a couple of weeks ago.. Really wanted to ride all the way back from my parents house (near Dunwich) to London but hopped on a train to get back in time to watch Cricket instead..

Ride it anytime....Rosie and i loved it when we rode it again on our own after the official one.

Hooray,

2nd pic, I can be spotted hiding behind tricity and the chocolate donkey.

I did the Dynamo for the 2nd time this yr. This time, I used a SatMap Active 10 as the GPS. I also downloaded a gpx file and it was almost perfect (apart from a wrong right turn which became obvious to the guy who created the gpx originally and he did a U-turn). I will post the gpx up for download tonight

Here you go ladies - this route for the Dynamo can be trusted. http://www.bikeroutetoaster.com/Cour...x?course=60429

Almost, except that's the 2008 route through Lavenham again--this was a one-off, as the village hall at Great Waldingfield was being refurbished. It does look correct except for that little kink, though.

Didn't sound like it at the time!

But hmmm, maybe I will. At any rate, I need to do something fun and intrepid before winter hits again.

L2p?

As hard as it was, and with the problems encountered, i still loved it.
I can't wait to do more long rides really soon.

Scott, showing mere mortals how it should be done since 1970something.

Some sound advice here, I'm definetly up for my first Dynamo this year.

err..next year..

Oh, I thought this was the thread for next year's ride! I got all excited. :(